The Mexican Cabdriver

We were sitting in traffic
on the Brooklyn Bridge,
so I asked the poets
in the backseat of my cab
to write a poem for you.
They asked
if you are like the moon
or the trees.
I said no,
she is like the bridge
when there is so much traffic
I have time
to watch the boats
on the river.

From A MAYAN ASTRONOMER IN HELL'S KITCHEN (W.W. Norton, 2000)

In a solid paragraph using evidence from the poem, please answer the following:

According to the speaker, what is his wife like?  What does he mean?  Why?   


1.  Journal-  Was a hanging  a good read?  Why/Why not?

2.  Attendance

3.  HW reminders

4.  In class writing.

5.  Reading HW.  Books or On line?